Pieter
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Pieter is a given name, and may refer to:
- Sint Pieter, a village now incorporated in Maastricht;
- Sint-Pieters, a suburb of Bruges;
- Pieterburen, a village in the north of Groningen;
- Pieter de Coninck (-1332), Flemish revolutionary;
- Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c 1525-1569), Netherlandish painter;
- Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1564-1633), Netherlandish painter;
- Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft (1581-1647), Dutch historian;
- Pieter de Hooch (1629-1684), Dutch painter;
- Pieter Burmann the Elder (1668-1741), Dutch classical scholar;
- Pieter Burmann the Younger (1714-1778), Dutch philologist;
- Pieter van Maldere (1729-1768), South-Netherlandish composer;
- Pieter Zeeman (1865-1943), Dutch physicist;
- Pieter Willem Botha (1916-2006), President of South Africa;
- Pieter van Vollenhoven (1939), the husband of princess Margriet of The Netherlands;
- Pieter van den Hoogenband (1978), Dutch Olympic swimmer.
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